Stent Meaning
/stɛnt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
verbTo insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
Sentence Examples
The surgeon placed a small stent in the patient's artery.
A stent is a tube used to keep a passage in the body open.
The cardiologist inserted a small stent to open the clogged artery.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor inserted a small metal ____ to open the blocked artery.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The surgeon successfully placed a small ____ in the artery to help keep it open and improve blood flow.
Word Origin & History
Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year."
— 2006 October 21, Barnaby J. Feder, “Doctors Rethink Widespread Use of Heart Stents”, in The New York Times:
"The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided."
— 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
"Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement."
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor inserted a small metal ____ to open the blocked artery.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The surgeon successfully placed a small ____ in the artery to help keep it open and improve blood flow.